Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Shawn
Co Founder / CTO @ Foam Former early engineer @ Yelp, Reddit, Everlane and Patreon and Affirm.
Seth
Founder and CEO of Riffusion, building at the frontier of AI and music. Previously founded Hardline and Yodel, and was Head of Product at Shape. Princeton alum with a background in molecular biology and global health.
Pete
Pete is the co-founder of Swoop.
Nick
Joined by the former CTO and founding engineer of Doctor on Demand, Nick is working to provide greater transparency to patients and providers. Starting with billing for his mother's practice in Washington DC, they are live nationwide and looking for smart and ambitious folks who want to help drive innovation in healthcare
Bao
Co-founder at Alpaca Health (SPC W'24) building the future of AI-Powered Autism Care. Previously built product at Instagram Reels, Facebook App, and was part of the Threads App launch. Duke Alum.
Amir
Amir is a co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to serve and scale machine learning applications. Previously led data platform engineering at Clover Health and was Head of Engineering at Gumroad.
Nick
Co-founder at Mirage Security, the Human Security company. Engineering alum of Modern Health (A->D) and Optimizely (B->D). Deep experience in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms and APIs, AI, distributed systems, and engineering leadership.
Harish
Exploring consumer AI use-cases. Prev. built bluelearn - one of India's top education apps. Youtuber with 180k subscribers.
Vivek
Vivek is the co-founder and CEO of Gameramp, helping games and consumer apps scale with capital and infrastructure support. Previously led new product efforts at EA and Big Viking Games.
Rob
Co-founder and CTO of Vori, bringing modern tools to streamline food supply chains. Previously worked on vehicle systems at SpaceX and Lyft, with a background in electrical engineering from Stanford.

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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